Madoka Natsumi
Madoka Natsumi 
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| birthday | 2nd July 1978 (age 42) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Abashiri , Japan | ||||||||
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| job | Office worker | ||||||||
| society | JR Hokkaido Ski Team | ||||||||
| Trainer | Hiroshi Kazakai | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 2012 | ||||||||
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Madoka Natsumi ( Japanese 夏 見 円 , Natsumi Madoka ; born July 2, 1978 in Abashiri ) is a former Japanese cross-country skier who specializes in sprint competitions. On February 27, 2008 she took third place in the sprint competition in Stockholm and thus achieved the first podium for Japan in the cross-country skiing world cup .
life and career
Natsumi started cross-country skiing at the age of seven and started the cross-country skiing world cup for the first time in 1997. After she was only able to achieve placings far outside the World Cup points at the beginning of her career, she specialized in sprint competitions from the 2001/02 season. So she managed to achieve World Cup points for the first time this season. In Cogne , Italy , she took 24th place over the 5 kilometers in the classic technique. Two weeks later, she also achieved eleventh place in the sprint in the classic technique in Asiago . At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she confirmed this result with a twelfth place in the freestyle sprint. At the end of the season, she achieved her first top ten finish with tenth place in the sprint in Oslo, Norway .
In the years that followed, Natsumi also managed to achieve World Cup points in sprint competitions several times. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 in Oberstdorf , however, she clearly missed the finals as 31st in the sprint qualification. In the 2005/06 season she finished eighth in the team sprint in Canmore, Canada with Nobuko Fukuda . The two women were able to repeat this placement at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Pragelato . In the sprint competition, which was held in the free technique , Natsumi was 17th. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2007 in Sapporo , Natsumi reached the A-final in the sprint in the classic technique and achieved her best result in an international competition with fifth place. She also competed in the season in races Far East Cups , which she finished in first place in the overall standings.
In the 2007/08 season , Natsumi achieved several top ten placements in sprint competitions. On February 27, 2008, she managed to jump on the podium in a World Cup competition for the first time in the sprint in Stockholm with third place. This is the best World Cup placement she could fight for. At the end of the season she finished 27th in the overall World Cup ranking and tenth in the overall ranking of the Sprint World Cup. In the following years she could not repeat her strong performances from the season in the World Cup. In March 2009 in Trondheim , she achieved seventh place in the sprint, her last top ten placement in a World Cup individual race. Her best results at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec were 27th place in the sprint and fourth place together with Masako Ishida in the team sprint. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she finished 30th in the 30 km mass start race, 27th place in the sprint and eighth place in the relay. At the Winter Asian Games 2011 she won silver with the relay and over 5 km classic and gold in the sprint. Her best results at the following Nordic World Ski Championships in 2011 in Oslo were tenth place with the relay and eighth place in the team sprint. After the 2011/12 season, in which she competed in the Far East Cup, she ended her career.
Web links
- Personal blog & natsu_mim ♪ (Japanese)
- Madoka Natsumi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Madoka Natsumi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Cups on three continents ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fis-ski.com, accessed on March 11, 2014
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| SURNAME | Natsumi, Madoka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 夏 見 円 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese cross-country skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd July 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abashiri |